Rock & Roll Birthdays
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injinji
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1938 Jet Black, English drummer, one of the founding members of The Stranglers
Before forming the band, "Jet Black" (real name Brian Duffy) was in his mid-30s. A successful businessman, Black at one point owned a fleet of ice cream vans,[4] and later ran "The Jackpot",[5] a Guildford off-licence that would serve as the base for the early Stranglers.[6][7] Black had also been a semi-professional drummer in the late 1950s and early 1960s; after attaining a degree of financial stability due to his business successes, by 1974 he decided to return to drumming, and to assemble a band. The Stranglers came to be an influential band in the British punk and new wave scene of the mid-70s.
The group that eventually formed between 1974–75 was originally named the Guildford Stranglers, but they soon dropped the geographical prefix and the name, The Stranglers, was registered as a business on 11 September 1974 by Black[note 1][8]. The other original personnel were bass player/vocalist Jean-Jacques Burnel, guitarist/vocalist Hugh Cornwell and keyboardist/guitarist Hans Wärmling, who was replaced by keyboardist Dave Greenfield within a year.[note 2] None of the band came from Guildford (apart from Burnel who was from Godalming) : Black is from Ilford, Burnel from Notting Hill, Cornwell from Kentish Town and Greenfield from Brighton, while Wärmling came from Gothenburg and returned there after leaving the band.
Before forming the band, "Jet Black" (real name Brian Duffy) was in his mid-30s. A successful businessman, Black at one point owned a fleet of ice cream vans,[4] and later ran "The Jackpot",[5] a Guildford off-licence that would serve as the base for the early Stranglers.[6][7] Black had also been a semi-professional drummer in the late 1950s and early 1960s; after attaining a degree of financial stability due to his business successes, by 1974 he decided to return to drumming, and to assemble a band. The Stranglers came to be an influential band in the British punk and new wave scene of the mid-70s.
The group that eventually formed between 1974–75 was originally named the Guildford Stranglers, but they soon dropped the geographical prefix and the name, The Stranglers, was registered as a business on 11 September 1974 by Black[note 1][8]. The other original personnel were bass player/vocalist Jean-Jacques Burnel, guitarist/vocalist Hugh Cornwell and keyboardist/guitarist Hans Wärmling, who was replaced by keyboardist Dave Greenfield within a year.[note 2] None of the band came from Guildford (apart from Burnel who was from Godalming) : Black is from Ilford, Burnel from Notting Hill, Cornwell from Kentish Town and Greenfield from Brighton, while Wärmling came from Gothenburg and returned there after leaving the band.
Amos Otis
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1953 Rick Downey, American rock drummer and vocalist (Blue Oyster Cult, 1981-85)
My good friend for a few years, he was the lighting technician on tours, and an emergency replacement when original drummer Albert Bouchard was fired while touring Europe in '81. A great drummer and extremely cool cat, but BOC records became merely above average w/o Albert.
My good friend for a few years, he was the lighting technician on tours, and an emergency replacement when original drummer Albert Bouchard was fired while touring Europe in '81. A great drummer and extremely cool cat, but BOC records became merely above average w/o Albert.
Silky T
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I thought it was Roger Daltry.
topcat
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injinji
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I heard too larry smokes weed.